Not long after the opening of Club Oaks, Senator Ralph E. Swing hosted a dinner at Club Oaks with George A. Herz for a legislature's joint fact-finding committee investigating the counties streets, highways and bridges. Senator Swing assisted in arranging the sessions while Mr. Herz served as the groups host. Among those present at the dinner were Senators Randolph Collier, George J. Hatfield, Ben Hulse, James J. McBride, Thomas McCormack, Jack B. Tenney and Assemblymen Michael J. Burns, Gerald P. Taggerty, Charles W. Stream and Charles W. Lyon.